A. H. Belo & Co. v. Smith
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Cooke County. C. R. Smith recovered a judgment against A. H. Belo & Co. for libel, in the sum of $1000, which was affirmed on appeal by defendants, who obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This suit was brought by defendant in error to recover of plaintiff in error, a corporation, damages for an alleged libelous publication which appeared in “The Dallas News” and “The Galveston News,” two newspapers published by the latter. The plaintiff in the trial court recovered there a judgment, which was affirmed in the Court of Civil Appeals. A writ of error has been granted, and the case has been submitted, together with a motion to dismiss the writ for want of jurisdiction.
We considered the question of jurisdiction before we granted the writ; but upon examining…
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